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A wise man once said that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. So, as a police offic
A wise man once said that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. So, as a police offic
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问题
A wise man once said that
the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
So, as a police officer, I have some urgent things to say to good people.
Day after day my men and I struggle to hold back a tidal wave of crime. Something has gone terribly wrong with our once-proud American way of life. It has happened in the area of values. A key ingredient is disappearing, and I think I know what it is: accountability.
Accountability isn’t hard to define. It means that every person is responsible for his or her actions and liable for their consequences.
Of the many values that hold civilization together—honesty, kindness, and so on—accountability may be the most important of all. Without it, there can be no respect, no trust, no law—and, ultimately, no society.
My job as a police officer is to impose accountability on people who refuse, or have never learned , to impose it on themselves. But as every policeman knows, external controls on people’s behavior are far less effective than internal restraints such as guilt, shame and embarrassment.
Fortunately there are still communities—smaller towns, usually—where schools maintain discipline and where parents hold up standards that proclaim: "In this family certain things are not tolerated—they simply are not done!"
Yet more and more, especially in our larger cities and suburbs, these inner restraints are loosening. Your typical robber has none. He considers your property his property; he takes what he wants, including your life if you annoy him.
The main cause of this breakdown is a radical shift in attitudes. Thirty years ago, if a crime was committed, society was considered the victim. Now, in a shocking reversal, it’s the criminal who is considered victimized; by his underprivileged upbringing, by the school that didn’t teach him to read, by the church that failed to reach him with moral guidance, by the parents who didn’t provide a stable home.
I don’t believe it. Many others in equally disadvantaged circumstances choose not to engage in criminal activities. If we free the criminal, even partly, from accountability, we become a society of endless excuses where no one accepts responsibility for anything.
Which of the following is not the reason for the criminal being considered victimized?
选项
A、He is illiterate because of the school.
B、The church gives him no moral guidance.
C、Their parents don’t love them.
D、He grows in an inferior upbringing environment.
答案
C
解析
根据题干,定位到第八段第三句,这一句话的冒号往后对应的就是题目问的4个原因。选项C对应最后一个原因,但是文章中并没有说父母不爱他们,而是说父母没有给他们提供一个稳定的家庭环境,故C曲解了文意。选项A对应第二个原因,文中的“didn’t teach him to read”对应选项A中的“illiterate”,意思是“不识字的”。选项B对应的是第三个原因,很清楚的同义改写。选项D对应的是第一个原因,文中的“underprivileged”对应选项D中的“inferior”。
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